China plans to promote spirit of patriotism through legislation - Global Times

Not sure what exact examples of what they mean by "Patriotic Education" and would like to see what ends up being put to paper. Because I think that sometimes it seems like the better phrasing would be focus on learning about Civics and making sure kids are learning to care about that stuff. As it seems to be something that most folks in the US don't really understand at all. Which is why we are getting more and more elected officials that don't actually know what their office is for or how it is supposed to function. At best they know that they can run on wild shit to get clout. After they win it is chaos in trying to purge or change things that aren't the issues and they don't understand. They just try to look at whatever stuff the last person of the opposing party did and just go hard on reversing shit just because.

But if by "Patriotic Education" they mean creating a system of just propping up a Chinese version of what the US does with our "exceptionalism." And just focuses on ignoring the failures or more problematic parts of their history. Then it seems like it would be a bad shift to right-wing conservatism. Which could be used to undo the gains in building towards socialism and internationalism. In that the focus of building solidarity and brotherhood between nations as each figures out how to build socialism in their own ways based on their masses is just turned into nationalism.

But I am going with the first paragraph as the goal unless we see that the second one is what plays out. As there are already too many times that what China is trying to do is twisted by either misunderstanding or outright lies. As a person in the US I tend to get nervous when a huge push for "patriotism" being taught. So that is why I worry about the possible meaning of using those words. As it is a very imperialist headspace if done how we have done it.